The interests of both the State and the Maoists are served by reducing the complex and many-layered tragedy unfolding in the forests of Dantewada to a battle between Good and Evil. For the Maoists, the people are subordinate to the revolution; for the government, the people are a minor expendable detail in the mineral-rich territory they live in.
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bastar
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chhattisgarh
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[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/human-rights
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[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/supreme-court
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rehabilitation
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/displacement
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